3810 SE Division
3810 SE Division
Portland, Oregon
Urban Development Partners’ newest project on SE Division is a four story mixed-use building on 38th and southeast Division. The building will consist of one level of retail sales and services on the ground floor and three levels of one- and two-bedroom apartments above. The design is intended to create a contemporary ground-floor datum with more historic residential blocks above. To further diminish the massing above and avoid the ‘supersized’ buildings that this type of development can create, the residential block is split in the middle by a sky-bridge corridor with a more contemporary glazing treatment. Below the skybridge at street level, we have created a flow-through courtyard that allows pedestrian movement to the back of the property. Retail sales and services that are not walk-up oriented will thrive in this south-facing development that looks onto a City run community garden. This is the perfect tranquil atmosphere for businesses such as massage therapy professionals, a counseling office, a hair stylist, etc. The building will be enveloped by a permeable surface courtyard with vegetated planters and other state of the art facilities custom designed to manage stormwater.
Also unique to this development, UD+P has the opportunity to save an existing home by picking it up, building a new foundation, and relocating the home to face 38th Avenue. This allows for a balanced transition from the inner, residential, neighborhood to the commercial thoroughfare on Division.
